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New Hard Drive rituals

https://blog.linuxserver.io/2018/10/29/new-hard-drive-rituals/ https://github.com/ncw/stressdisk That new hard drive. Should you trust it? Maybe. Over the last 10 years that I've been messing around with Linux servers (hence the name of the site by the way) there's been one thing above all else that's always required special care - hard drives. They are mechanical beasts just waiting to eat your data at any time. Entire businesses are built around their inherent (un)reliability. Backblaze make a point every quarter of publishing their hard drive reliability statistics because people (myself included) care about this stuff. I have personally purchased around 20-25 hard drives in the last 10 years ranging from 1.5TB Seagate drives to the 8TB drives that currently grace my systems. That 1.5TB Seagate drive failed and I lost it's entire contents sometime in 2009 and whilst I was not alone it was a hard, but useful lesson I learned that ...

Chat, Calls and Video Conferencing

https://puri.sm/posts/our-essential-list-of-free-software-for-remote-work/ https://www.mumble.info/ https://matrix.org/ Purism has been working remote since we started in 2014. Here’s our list of essential free software for remote work, all can be self hosted or used via various hosted options. Chat, Calls and Video Conferencing Team chat has already become an essential tool for teams looking to be more collaborative and less reliant on email. At Purism we use Matrix for team chat, 1 to 1 calls, video conferencing via Jitsi (open source video conferencing), adhoc file sharing and all our community chat channels. Matrix is a distributed (federated) network, similar to email, which means you can communicate across Matrix servers and compatible services. You can self host Matrix or use a public instance like our own free Librem Chat service part of Librem One. All the goodness of Matrix conveniently hosted for you and accessible with one account that also gives you ...

Mutopia Project

https://www.mutopiaproject.org/ Free Sheet Music for Everyone 2124 pieces of music – free to download, modify, print, copy, distribute, perform, and record – all in the Public Domain or under Creative Commons licenses, in PDF, MIDI, and editable LilyPond file formats. More